Posted on 11/10/2012 8:41:12 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Recent polls show increasing support for same-sex marriage among blacks. A national exit poll by Edison Research shows that black voters favored their state legalizing gay marriage, 51 to 41 percent. Pew polls have also showed an increase from 36 percent in 2011 to 44 percent last month supporting gay marriage.
According to the exit poll conducted by Edison Research on behalf of the NEP, 51 percent of black voters said their states should legally recognize same-sex marriage, compared with 47 percent of whites who favored this idea. It's a big shift considering that in 2011, the Pew Research Center found that only 36 percent of blacks favored legalizing gay marriage, compared with 49 percent of whites supporting it.
A Pew survey found last month that long-standing racial differences in attitudes toward gay marriage were narrowing. Consistently over the past decade, blacks have been far less supportive of legalizing gay marriage than whites. But the latest survey found blacks divided more evenly on this issue than in the past, with 44 percent in favor and 39 percent opposed to allowing gay marriage. Among whites, 49 percent favored and 41 percent opposed same-sex marriage.
These survey results come even as Maine, Maryland and Washington State legalized gay marriage through ballot measures on Election Day. Additionally, voters in Minnesota, which prohibits same-sex marriage, rejected a measure to add the prohibition to the state's constitution.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the nation's oldest African-American civil rights group, voted in May to support a resolution endorsing same-sex marriage at its board meeting in Miami, Fla. "The mission of the NAACP has always been to ensure political, social and economic equality of all people," Roslyn M. Brock, chairman of the Board of Directors of the NAACP, said in a statement. "We have and will oppose efforts to codify discrimination into law."
Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP, said in a statement, "Civil marriage is a civil right and a matter of civil law. The NAACP's support for marriage equality is deeply rooted in the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and equal protection of all people. The well-funded right wing organizations who are attempting to split our communities are no friend to civil rights, and they will not succeed."
Many from the black community remain against same-sex marriage. The Coalition of African-American Pastors has been vocal in their opposition to President Obama's support for gay marriage and a group of well-known African Americans, including Dr. Alveda King, launched the "God Said" campaign this year in support of the biblical definition of marriage, between one man and one woman.
The Rev. William Owens, Jr., head of the "Mandate for Marriage" initiative and son of the Rev. William Owens, Sr., the founder and president of the Coalition of African-American Pastors (CAAP), had recently stressed the importance of the issue in the election.
"It's only going to increase because the very core of America is founded upon Judeo-Christian beliefs. That's debatable to some people but you can't do away with history," Owens, Jr. told The Christian Post earlier. "When you begin to take on those core values you begin to take on what's the core for America. So when more and more begin to realize what is getting ready to happen, it's going to have to become an issue if we want to save our country."
He added that the time had come for a broad-based assault against the powers that want to change America's culture to one of men marrying men and women marrying women.
If you’re a believer, church goes with you.
free weed one day, gay marriage another...we'll get around to polygamy and polyandry before long, along with lowering the age of consent to 13....
we'll be seeing 14 yros vote pretty soon....
I wish I lived in earlier times...
that’s because the polls were tailored made to explain the fraud...
LOL
Not Arab ships - Europeans did slave ships, Arabs trans-Saharan caravans. And not a small minority - a substantial minority. Arab slave ships operated in the Mediterranean, even up to Ireland, enslaving Europeans
Europeans have lived in serfdom, and Muslims captured Europeans for slaves - the word “slave” from Slav. The Norsemen sold other Europeans to the Muslims and had their own slaves.
Then there is Communism and Nazism...
And us, Americans, electing ever more powerful governments...
Most peoples seem to adapt to slavery.
Because the election, just like the last one, was rigged.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQxsx3IGS1E&feature=youtu.be
Obama was for it so it must be OK now.
“Along a line similar to this one....about a month or so ago there was a big bloviating statement by a group of supposedly very straight and influential black ministers. They castigated Obama for his pro-homo activities, etc., and told POTUS not to count on THEIR votes. Then they seemingly dropped off the edge of the Earth. What happened?”
Remember the PUMA’s? They were never really there in the first place.
Wow, that’s disturbing.
If there was Video of Obama drowning Kittens, Drowning Kittens would have a 90% approval rating in the Black Community.
What happened to them?
When they Voted for Obama, they used their left hands.
As pastor John MacArthur recently said, the 2012 Democrat convention adopted all of the perverted homosexual practices of the antediluvian civilization as it's 2012 platform. Those deviant practices are specifically cited in the Apostle Paul's epistle to the 1st century church at Rome as the primary cause for God's judgment on that ancient world that killed every human being except righteous Noah and his 8-person family.
When God's judgment falls on America, and it will at His own time, it will be primarily because of our disbelief in and rejection of His Son Jesus the Christ (Messiah) and our acceptance of homosexual perversion as normal and harmless along with the legalized murder of 50+ million and counting unborn children in order to eliminate the natural result of the current sexual revolution.
I realize that my view of American society's moral "standards" is old fashioned and totally out of step with that of virtually all Americans. But all I can say is so be it, I'm not changing my belief in the veracity of God's infallible Word no matter how many atheistic eggheads think I'm a gullible old fool.
Pew wouldn’t know an evangelical if one peed on em
They count United Methodist and northern Lutheran and disciples of Christ. As evangelical
But that is such lib bs
Here we think of vangies as socons
seig f’n heil yo
Even the Mormon muckety muck Mitt would have been friendlier to traditional Judeo-Christian faith than this faux-Christian Kenyan.
Feel the same way about why the Jews were selected for the Holocaust?
Catholic identity is not as ingrained as racial identity among blacks. There are lapsed Catholics but there are no "lapsed blacks." You also have to look at the regional concentration of Catholics. They are heavily concentrated in the New England and Mid-Atlantic states. These are blue, liberal states, so there is a regional influence on them competing with whatever message they get from the Catholic church. They're probably more attuned to the message they get from the DNC than they are to the message they get from the Catholic church.
Thats funny as hell.
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